Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bad to Good

Well, I was continuing to see the beginning of the end as Megaupload was taken down a couple hours after Blackout Day (Probably a show of force by FBI & DoJ). Well, the almighty unspeakable board pulled through.

I went to dinner quite enraged. I arrived home to discover that the Department of Justice website, the FBI website, the MPAA website, the RIAA website, and several others had all been taken down by, as the media still likes to call it, the "Hacktivist" (God I hate that word) group "Anonymous". Well, I rejoiced and immediately got to work getting up to speed on the happenings. This was quite a triumphant retaliation if I may say so myself. Dox were put together of Lamar Smith and the CEO of MPAA, Chris Dodd. Let's hope that this helps get them to back off on their grasping at power, and that the people keep fighting back. I think we could be on the road to turbulent times. Given the current direction the government is headed, a turbulent era with a new government rising up for the people would be the best thing for us, in my opinion.

There was also talk of a complete "blackout" of buying anything from RIAA, MPAA, etc. No media purchased over the month of March to cause massive profit losses in Q1. Given how well blackout day went, it's not implausible that this could make a serious dent in their profits, which would send a serious message, given enough cooperation. I also remember seeing talk about a DDoS of the DNS root servers for the whole nation, but haven't seen any more discussion from this. Would likely be *too* devastating for everybody, and would be virtually impossible, although apparently it was tried before and nearly succeeded.

Thoughts on the mass takedowns? I'm hoping people keep the pressure on this government. It's gotten way out of hand.

28 comments:

I say its good. They need to fuck off and waste their time with more important things like the 500 FBI computers with child porn or actual criminals that get away with shit. Not teenagers who are broke so they download shitty music.

gewgre: Me too :Dzabuzar: Yea, though uneducated kids works well in the establishment's favor at timesZap: Indeed, I've known this for quite a while!GhosT: Thanks, following backFaust: I can see the feeligns behind thatBersercules: YepGod King: Thanks, following back!

There's gotta be a different way of labeling Anonymous. Anonymous represents the hackers, but Anonymous also writes my favorite quotes, and Anonymous wrote my favorite secular music after the Holy Roman Empire. He doesn't seem like a bad guy. :P

What surprises me more than Megaupload being down is what they charged them with and the fact that New Zealand conducted the arrests of its own citizens w/o second thought b/c the US asked them to. If you look at the actual charges (supporting copyright enfringement, encouraging copyright enfingement, etc etc) any fair court would throw the case out after looking at Megaupload's policies and amount of traffic they get daily... Guess we will see though.

Zap: There needs to be something to bring power back to the people. We shouldn't *have* to hide on the deep web as they steal our rights.

Jacob: :PRandom Guy: Apparently CONSPIRACY to commit Copyright Infringement is now a crime. Weird, I didn't know you could be charged for considering ways to pirateCross: Indeed he is a money hungry prick